Saturday 13 June 2015 Rāhoroi 13 Pipiri 2015

• 12:00 AM. Music Through the Night

  The Stars are Comforting

  The letters of Beatrice Hill Tinsley (1941-1981)

  Her research into the Evolution of Galaxies made Beatrice Tinsley a giant of 20th century astronomy. Throughout her life Beatrice also played her violin and wrote home to her family

  Twenty programmes, with letters edited by Theodora Lee-Smith and read by Tina Regtien

  (13) Two trips to Europe, teaching in Austin, Evolution of Galaxies project at Caltech; 1973-4 (RNZ)

  12:00 approx - Disc 1

  PÄRT: Symphony No 4, Los Angeles - LA Phil/Esa-Pekka Salonen

  Konan pokajanen, fragments - Estonian Phil Chamber Choir, Tonu Kaljuste (ECM 2160)

  1:50 approx - Disc 2

  DEBUSSY: String Quartet in G minor Op 10; FAURÉ: String Quartet in E minor Op 121; RAVEL: String Quartet in F - Quatuor Ebène (Virgin 5 19045)

  3:10 approx - Disc 3

  MISKINIS: Dum medium silentium; O sacrum convivium; Pater noster; Tenebrae factae sunt; Don't leave me, Sun; Seven O Antiphons; Oh, it's getting cold; O Magnum Mysterium; Ave Maria (second setting); Salve Regina; Ave Maria (third setting); Time is endless - Choir of Royal Holloway/Rupert Gough (Hyperion CDA 67818)

  4:25 approx - Disc 4

  LILBURN: Three Sea Changes; Sonatina No 2; Prelude (1951); From the Port Hills; Sonata (1956); Nine Short Pieces; Adagio Sostenuto; Two Preludes (1951); Sonata (1949) - Margaret Nielson (pno) (Manu CD MANU 1511)

• 6:00 AM. Classic Morning

  6:00 MOZART: The Abduction from the Seraglio, Overture - Dresden State Orch/Colin Davis (RCA 74321 56698)

  J STRAUSS II arr Berg: Wine, Women & Song - Alfred Mitterhofer (harmonium), Leonore Aumaier (pno), members of the Vienna String Quintet (CPO 999 588)

  THOMAS arr Stoltzman: Je suis Titania, from Mignon - Richard Stoltzman (cl), Slovak Phil/Arthur Fagen (RCA 09026 68817)

  CORELLI: Violin Sonata in D minor Op 5/12, La follia - members of the Purcell Quartet (Hyperion CDA 66226)

  DELIUS: In a Summer Garden - Hallé Orch/Vernon Handley (EMI CD CFP 4568)

  7:00 GRAINGER: Molly on the Shore - City of London Sinfonia/Richard Hickox (Chandos CHAN 9653)

  FALLA: The Three-Cornered Hat, Suite No 1 - Ulster Orch/Josep Caballé-Domenech (BBC Music BBC MM 255)

  SARASATE: Song of the Nightingale Op 29 - Julia Fischer (vln), Milana Chernyavska (pno) (Decca 478 5950)

  OFFENBACH: Barcarolle, from The Tales of Hoffmann - Philharmonia/Herbert von Karajan (IMG Artists 5 62869)

  RODGERS: The Carousel Waltz - Hollywood Bowl Orch/John Mauceri (Philips 434 127)

  BUXTEHUDE: Sonata in G minor Op 2/3 BuxWV261 - Skip Sempé (hpschd), Capriccio Stravagante (DHM 05472 77300)

  8:00 ARNOLD: Four Scottish Dances - Boston Pops Orch/Keith Lockhart (RCA 09026 68901)

  ROSAS: Sobre las olas - Festival Orch of Mexico/Enrique Bátiz (Naxos 8.550838)

  POULENC: Trois Pièces, Pastorale; Hymne; Toccata - Eric Parkin (pno) (Chandos CHAN 8637)

  IRELAND: Phantasie Trio in A minor - Gould Piano Trio (Naxos 8.570507)

  ZIEHRER: Viennese Girls Waltz Op 388 - Razumovsky Sinfonia/Christian Pollack (Marco Polo 8.223817)

• 9:00 AM. Best of Upbeat

  A recap from the week's national and international music news with Eva Radich (RNZ)

• 10:00 AM. Michael Hill International Violin Competition Commissions

  Eight programmes researched and produced by Amber Read

  (8) KENNETH YOUNG: GONE (RNZ)

• 10:15 AM. Your Choice

  ADDINSELL: Invitation waltz, from Ring Round the Moon - BBC Concert Orch/Kenneth Alwyn (Marco Polo 8.223732)

  SAINT-SAËNS: Africa, Fantasy Op 89 - Stephen Hough (pno), CBSO/Sakari Oramo (Hyperion CDA 67331/2)

  HEBERLE: Sonate brillante - Hugo Reyne (csakan) (Musiques Chabotterie 605007)

  IRELAND: Sea Fever; KEEL: Trade winds, from Three Salt-Water Ballads - Jonathan Lemalu (bbar), Roger Vignoles (pno) (EMI 5 75203)

  Peter Cooper (1918-2004)

  Peter Mechen presents an appreciation of the New Zealand pianist (RNZ)

  JOYCE: Caravan Suite - RTE Concert Orch, Dublin/Andrew Penny (Marco Polo 8.223694)

  (Box 123, Wellington or concert@radionz.co.nz)

• Noon The RNZ Concert Classical Chart

  This week's best-selling CDs

• 1:00 PM. New Jazz Archive

  Ten programmes of interviews with some of jazz's big musical thinkers, vibrant biographies and carefully-crafted playlists that represent the full gamut of jazz's rich history

  (5) Thelonious Monk

  The life and legend of jazz great Thelonious Monk. Biographer Robin Kelley talks about Monk's life and music. And we'll explore how Monk's battle with mental illness shaped his life and career, and take a look at how Monk's masterpiece Round Midnight became the most recorded jazz standard of all time (PRX)

• 2:00 PM. Global Sounds

  Indigenous music from around the world

• 3:00 PM. Saturday Concert

  Wagner Gala

  Christine Goerke (sop), Simon O'Neill (ten), New Zealand SO/Pietari Inkinen

  WAGNER: Excerpts from Siegfried & Götterdämmerung (recorded yesterday in the Michael Fowler Centre, Wellington by RNZ)

• 5:10 PM. Fantasies & Diversions

  SCHUMANN: Fantasy Pieces Op 73 - Jörg Widmann (cl), Lars Vogt (pno) (Avi 8553207)

  SCHULHOFF: Divertissement for oboe, clarinet & bassoon - Ingo Goritzki (ob), Ulf Rodenhäuser (cl), Klaus Thunemann (bassoon), Ensemble Villa Musica (MDG 304 0616)

• 6:00 PM. Made in New Zealand

  NZ performers and composers

  GLINKA: Ruslan & Lyudmila, Overture - NZSO National Youth Orch 2005/Edwin Outwater (Private/RNZ)

  J RITCHIE: Two's Company - Matthew Marshall, Gunter Herbig (gtrs), Wellington Orch/Kenneth Young (Private)

  KEAY: Variations on a theme from At the Hawk's Well - Anastasiya Filippochkina (vln), Gabriel Casalis (cello), Debra Takakjian (pno) (Blumlein CD-A 023)

  BACH arr Farquhar: Six Chorale Preludes, Alle Menschen müssen sterben; Erschienen ist der herrliche Tag; Hilf Gott, das mir's gelinge; O Lamm Gottes; Vom Himmel kam der Engel Schar; In dulci jubilo - New Zealand Wind Quintet (RNZ)

  LISZT: La lugubre gondola (first version) - Terence Dennis (pno) (Ode CD MANU 2038)

  SMETANA: Vltava, from Má Vlast - New Zealand SO/James Sedares (RNZ)

• 7:00 PM. Vocalied

  GRIEG: Melodies of the Heart Op 5, Two brown eyes; A poet's heart; I love you; My thoughts are like a mighty mountain; The Princess - Katarina Karnéus (mezzo), Julius Drake (pno) (Hyperion CDA 67670)

  STRAUSS: Mädchenblumen Op 22, Cornflower; Poppies; Ivy; Waterlily - Julian Prégardien (ten), Christoph Schnackertz (pno) (Myrios MYR 012)

  GRIEG: A Simple Song - Monica Groop (mezzo), Roger Vignoles (pno) (BIS CD 1457)

• 7:30 PM. Music Alive

  Direct from the Auckland Town Hall

  Michael Hill International Violin Competition 2015 Final

  The three finalists perform concertos with the Auckland Philharmonia, conductor Rumon Gamba

  The concertos are selected from the following:

  BARTÓK: Violin Concerto No 2 Sz112; BRAHMS: Violin Concerto in D Op 77; BRITTEN: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 15; DVORÁK: Violin Concerto in A minor Op 53; ELGAR: Violin Concerto in B minor Op 61; HINDEMITH: Violin Concerto; MENDELSSOHN: Violin Concerto in E minor Op 64; PROKOFIEV: Violin Concerto No 1 in D Op 19; Violin Concerto No 2 in G minor Op 63; SIBELIUS: Violin Concerto in D minor Op 47; SHOSTAKOVICH: Violin Concerto No 1 in A minor Op 77; STRAVINSKY: Violin Concerto in D; TCHAIKOVSKY: Violin Concerto in D Op 35; WALTON: Violin Concerto in B minor (RNZ)

• 10:00 PM. Day's End

  RAMEAU: Platée, Suite - European Union Baroque Orch/Roy Goodman (Naxos 8.557490)

  METCALF: Septet for harp, flute, clarinet & strings - Eleanor Turner (harp), Philippa Davies (fl), David Campbell (cl), Solstice Quartet (Signum SIGCD 203)

  RAVEL: Piano Concerto for the left hand - Maxime Zecchini (pno), Cape Phil/Jan Moritz Onken (Ad Vitam AV 140315)

  11:00 HAYDN: String Quartet in Eb Op 20/1 - Quatuor Mosaïques (Auvidis Astrée E 8784)

  BEETHOVEN: Quintet in Eb for piano & winds Op 16 - Eric Le Sage (pno), Les Vents Français (Warner 2564 623185)

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